LYCH GATE, WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST EDWARD

LYCH GATE, WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST EDWARD, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268649
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE, WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST EDWARD
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE, WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST EDWARD, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268649
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE, WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST EDWARD
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE, WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST EDWARD, CHURCH STREET

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE, WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST EDWARD, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Leek
National Grid Reference:: SJ 98302 56609

Details

LEEK

SJ9856NW CHURCH STREET 611-1/4/39 (North side) 13/04/51 Lych gate, walls, railings, gates and gate piers to churchyard of St Edward (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Lych gate of St Edward's Church) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Churchyard walls,railings,gates and gate-piers of St Edward's Church)

GV II

Lych gate, wall, railings, gate piers and gates to churchyard. Stone and cast-iron. Lychgate dated 1634, the walls successively rebuilt, and incorporating C18 and late C19 dated stones. Stone gate piers facing E, square section with shallow pyramidal caps. Cast-iron gates. Length of cast-iron spearhead railings on stone plinth wall with moulded copings to S and W. Plain stone retaining walls surmounted by cast-iron railings return each side of steps at main entrance. W wall, battered from the pavement, incorporates stone tablets commemorating former church wardens, and in the S wall is the polished granite basin of a fountain, and a sandstone drinking trough. Lychgate of main entrance dated 1634. Segmental archway with stepped parapet above, enriched by pinnacles. The wall, railings, gate piers and gates to churchyard were first listed 07/06/72.

Listing NGR: SJ9830256609

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Legacy System number:: 461614
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.